The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

at SacO, Maine, on the 10Th, destroyed
the Thornton block and adjoining
building, causing a loss of about S25,
000. The Coldwater Road Cart Com
pany's chair factory and some adjOIn
ing buildings, at Cold Water, Michigan
were burned on the 10th. Loss, S26,
600. G. w. Shaver's store and adjoin
ing buildings, at Cedar Springs, Mich
gan, we're burned on the 10TH. Loss
S44, 600. The loss by the forest fires il
the neighborhood Of Brockwayville, il
the lumber regions OF this State, il
estimated at $25 200 thus far.
"A violent storm of wind, rain and
hail ragged at Carlisle, Penna., on thu
afternoon OF the 18th. At the Indiar
Training School trees were levellet
and several of the buildings unroofed
and at the county almshouse 6OC
panes of glass were smashed. In tht
town thousands of window pane:
were smashed, one house was STRUCK
by lightning, trees were uproOted
and a number of buildings were par
TALLY unroofed, A tornado at Wau
paca, Wisconsin, ON the afternoon oil
the 10Th, wrecked the opera house, I'm.
rooted two hotels, blew down the Epis
copal Church steeple, and did Other
damage. The Curran House was
struck by lightning but no n was in
iured. The farmers in the vicinity
suffered heavy losses.
While Mrs. John A. Logan was
riding with a lady friend In Carbon
dale, Illinois, on the 10Th. the horse be.
came frightened and backed the wagon
over an embankment. Mrs. Logan, IL
attempting to jump out, caught her
foot in a wheel and was thrown under
the horses feet. sustaining a severe
scalp wound, and her left arm and side
were badly bruised.
"A terrible storm visited Easton,
Penna., and the surrounding country,
between 6 and Z O'Clock on the evening
of the 10th, doing damage estimated at
$780, 900. In Philipsburg, the Delaware
Rolling Min was damaged and the
Judd carriage factory destroyed by
lightning. a barn containing four
horse was blown down, several houses
were unroofed and many trees were up
rooted.
Twelve men were injured, three
perhaps fatally, by an explosion of mol
ten metal while making a casting at
the Union Steel Works, In Chicago, on
the morning of the 10th. While some
rOckmen vert blasting for the Lehigh
Valley Company at Lumber Yard, on
the Hazleton branch road, on the 10th,
a premature explosion took place.
Henry Shoemaker, aged 40, was killed
Henry Beal had both eyes blown out,
and John Wasser was fatally injured.
By an explolion of fire damp Ill the
Port Royal coal mines. near West
Newton, Penna.. on the 18th, -four
miners were badly burned. n of them
named George, SUSSEX, perhaps fatally.
w. G.. Truman was arrested at
Str0udsburg, Penna., on the morning
of the 18th, on the charge of having
obtained STAG on a draft made on the
Chemical National Bank, of New
York, through the City National Bank,
OF Binghamptou, 10y forging the name
of VIM. r Osborne, President of the
latter bank. Truman had been ope-
rating In Tennessee and Mississippi,
and the bank of StroudSburg lately
warned a Mississippi bank III time to
prevent the payment on a forged draft
of $4,000.
Temperatures and deaths i'll diff
feret cities were reported on the 18th
as follows: Washington, 102 in the
q deaths. Richmond, 100 to 106;
deaths in two days II. Indianapolis,
1nn. daatha 2 TnYYicuina 1Dns DEATHS
8. Pittsburg. 90; deaths, %.
Telegraph and telephone wires
been repaired, news was re-
on the 18th OF the details of the
damage done in the country around
Reading, Penna., by the storm on the
afternoon of the 18th. AT Temple. in
Berks county, Edward Medlar's barn
was destroyed by lightning; loss, $1,000.
At Yocum's Forge, David Herz0g's
barn and the crops of a l50-acre farm
were destroyed; loss, $4,000. AT Penns-
burg Michael Goettle's team was
struck by lightning, and Goethe and
horse killed. Henry Foxes barn,
at the same place, was consumed; loss,
$4,000. The houses OF County Com
missioners Frank and Jacob Richards
damaged by lightning. The
Macungie Iron Company's casting
house was flooded, and N. W, Weav-
er's barn at Macungle was struck and
consumed; loss, $4,000. Many fields
washed out. The total loss in
The district is estimated at $4,000.
Herbert Pepplird, William Lind
and Oliver Morrison were drowned
In Cobequid Bay, Nova Scotia, on the
10th, 10y the swapping of a boat. d.
A. MOnnees, of Brooklyn, and Charles
A. Straub,of New York, were drowned
in Gardeners Bay, Long Island, on
the evening of the 10th, by the up
of a row. boat by swells from
a steamer. Moritz B~allons, a -four
merchant of New York city, was
drowned while trying to save his two
from being drowned near New
burg on the morning of the l7tsi. All
went in bathing, and the boys getting
their depth, he went to their
He was seized with cramps
and persisted, while the boys were saved
by a gentleman who extended a fishing
pole to them from the bank.
An inhuman wretch, near River
side, Arkansas, had Il ~iive-year-old
whom he greatly dislIked and
with savage cruelty, recently
out one of his eyes while beat
.ng him. A few days ago after hor-
ribly beating the little fellow, he tied
lim by the wrists to a stake i'll the hot
SUI, and left him there until he died.
The murderer then armed himself and
led to the woods. THE child's mother
seems indifferent over the affair" Max
Conrad, accused of the murder of a
leighbor named Henry Sallen, for the
purpose or robbing him or $500, was
from the county jail at Nelson,
on the morning OF the nth
and lynched by a ID of one hundred
men. Sallen's wife died from the
shock OF her husbands death.
AT Four Mile Run, near Pittsburg.
ln the evening OF the 18th, Mrs. James
Smith was fatally burned and her hus-
and sister-in-law were severely
by the explosion of a a of
coal oil with which Mr.. Smith was
a fire III the stove.